Fluor awarded BASF's TDI plant contract at Ludwigshafen

7:58 AM MST | February 19, 2013 | Natasha Alperowicz

Fluor says it has secured an engineering, procurement, and construction management services contract for BASF’s toluene diisocyanate (TDI) project at the company’s Ludwigshafen site. The contract value has not been disclosed. The single-train TDI plant will be designed to produce 300,000 m.t./year. It will help expand additional plants as precursors for polyurethanes at the site. Production is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2014. Fluor has been involved in the project since 2011 performing support services for both the...